Genevieve Conway

Genevieve Conway was the owner and proprietor of the Black Spot tavern in the town of Blackwater during Chapter 10. She was innocent and lively, but occasionally her temper would lash out and get away from her if just cause presented itself.

Genevieve's past was misty at best, but soon the secret was revealed that she used to be the Madam of the Black Spot when it was a brothel, before it was converted to a hotel. The incident that caused the shift was that one of her employees was brutally murdered by a customer. Genevieve caught the man in the act, or so she thought, and put a bullet between his eyes.

The spirit of the prostitute subsequently began haunting the tavern, dragging bodies up from the bottom of the ocean and leaving them on the floors for guests to find. Other happenings took place as well, frightening things, that would wake guests in the middle of the night. Eventually the displacement of the bodies attracted the attention of the god the Tidal Father, who took up residence in the tavern until such time as the people could appease him by delving into the bottom of his temple and defeating the creature there.

Out of desperation, Genevieve embraced the ghost and the god's presence and turned the tavern into somewhat of a theme location, which saw moderate success, but her ultimate desire was to lay the spirit to rest and appease the god so everything could go back to normal.

At the suggestion of one of Captain Cannonball's crewmembers, Darfu, Genevieve agreed to hold a seance. In speaking with the spirits prior to the seance, the voodoo master learned that the message was possibly not one Genevieve would like to hear. Nevertheless, she insisted, and on a stormy evening in the darkness the ghost of the prostitute spoke through her and revealed three clues: a photograph of Genevieve, old but with her likeness exactly as it appeared at the time; a journal, dated 20 years prior; and a gravestone with her name on it along with the epitaph, "daughter, mother, and beloved friend."

Over the course of the seance it was revealed that Genevieve herself was the ghost - her unfinished business the loss of her son. But in her grief her personality had split into two entities: one which maintained her corporeal form and forgot the nightmare, and the other, more chaotic one, that haunted the night seeking her lost child, James Conway.